Death Valley Pictures -- Day 2

We camped the first night in a Joshua Tree forest, and in the morning
Andreas talked about Playas on Mars. As we crossed the Nevada/Arizona border we
stopped at Hoover Dam and heard Eric Karkoshka talk about the dam's effect on
the river. We came VERY close to Las Vegas, as some of the train accidently
went North on the 15 instead of south, we were within spitting distance of the
Mandalay Bay. . .

As we pulled into Death Valley proper Joe Plassman and Felipe Ip gave their
talks on chaos and old lake shorelines respectively. Turns out that during
glaciations Death Valley entirely fills with water, then empties during
interglacials like we're presently experiencing. Neat. Fred and Devon talked
about gravel fans in Badwater, elevation -282ft, and Adina talked about fault
scarps, faults, pull-apart basins, and regional tectonics.